• grrgyle@slrpnk.net
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    20 hours ago

    Went to get glasses and made a big point of avoiding Ray Bands for taking Facebook money to make pervert glasses. Hoping it’s not the first time they’ve heard that.

    I do actually like the classic nerd look of their glasses, but yeah, fuck that.

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        5 hours ago

        That’s why I cut out the middle man. I place a screen at a predictable distance from my face all the time and let the cameras autofocus. AI makes everyone hot too.

        The ads are a bitch though, but the Ritalin I got from Hims helps.

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        9 hours ago

        I not only have to pay to see, but I have also to pay huge markups for it??? Fucking hell.

        It was always weird to me how expensive glasses and lenses were, now I’m just pissed at being right.

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          9 hours ago

          Yep. I go to Costco now because I’m blind in one eye so the correction is only for the other eye. Costco only charges me 50% of the normal lens cost and the blind eye just gets a balance lens (weight matched to the other without correction).

          I’ve walked out with a brand new pair of lenses and frames for $30 after my eye “insurance”.

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        16 hours ago

        Noooo! Well, I tried. I can’t remember which I got, but not a brand I recognized. I’ll have to look them up

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        19 hours ago

        Anyone reading this there is still value in undermining the investment the conglomerate made in purchasing raybans.

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      16 hours ago

      I had to get glasses for the first time, and the first ones i liked, just by looking at 1000 glasses and being completely lost were ray bens. I made an audible eew and kept looking. The lady was probably a bit confused